I am to developing an SDK for my internship but there a smaller steps which need to be completed first, one of which involves being able to create an executable.
We use Python, so my employer wants it to be converted to C code via Cython and then turned into an executable by compiling it as if it was a normal C program using gcc. So getting the C file is no problem, it's just the next step. Anytime I try to compile the C file into an executable the following error occurs:
d.c:4:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.
I've looked in /usr/include/python2.7 and Python.h does exist but for some reason nothing is happening? I've downloaded the lastest version of python-dev as some threads have suggested yet nothing seems to be solving the problem. Any help at all would be brilliant.
EDIT 1: I found the solution here, "Compile main program using Cython"
Basically the problem was that when I was compiling with Cython, I needed to add the --embed tag to the end of it, so, let's say I've the file "test.py", then first type:
cython test.py --embed
Once the test.c file has been generated I then typed:
gcc -Os -I /usr/include/python2.7 -o test test.c -lpython2.7
This then created an executable called test which could be than ran. I hope this helps anyone else with this problem.